Word: clue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CASE OF THE EMPTY TIN-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). A code scratched on a tin can in the dusty corner of a California cellar gives Perry Mason his first clue in a case of double murder. Departs in many ways from the familiar Mason formula-and is much the better...
...peculiar names, you may be interested to know that Pislam Civ (not Siv or Xiv) appeared in the one-act play contest at Bowdoin College in 1936 or 1937, if my memory serves me. This character, however, was male and derived his name from Psalm CIV. Is this a clue to how rapidly an idea travels from Maine to California...
...bombardment can give any element the emanating qualities of radium. These radioactive elements, when swallowed in liquid form, have two great uses for medicine: 1) in minuscule amounts, they settle in specific organs for a brief time, then can be traced in their journey through the body, providing a clue to the process of growth and repair; 2) in larger doses they settle in the organs for a longer time. There, like radium or Xray, they destroy cancers...
...reported ruined by Russian hands. The retreat had been slow enough to make possible some industrial destruction (factories cannot be destroyed by the hasty heaving of dynamite sticks). Last week Berlin's radio Propagandist Lord Haw-Haw acknowledged an earth-scorching holocaust in the Western Ukraine, gave a clue to the reason for Stalin's reestablishment of political commissars in the Red Army (TIME, July...
AWAKE DEBORAH-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2.50). Long golden hair woven into a Dartmoor heath lark's nest is the first clue to murder that stirs an English botanist out of his dignified ease and sadly perplexes Scotland Yard. Lengthy, but impressive story in the grand English tradition...